A great way to introduce children to classical music.
America's first Children's Poet Laureate has written all-new verses to accompany the composer Camille Saint-Saens's "The Carnival of the Animals, " and the illustrator of the Harry Potter books has turned these rollicking rhymes into a picture-book fun fest. Included is a CD of the music and of Jack Prelutsky reading the verses. A note to parents and teachers by Judith Bachleitner, head of the music department at the prestigious Rudolf Steiner School in New York City, suggests ways preschoolers can act out the music--tromp like an elephant, hop like a kangaroo, glide like a swan--or, for older children, be creatively inspired by this joyful work.

A series of essays on reactions and emotional responses to music.

A series of essays on reactions and emotional responses to music.

Cette uvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de deux millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou uniquement disponible chez les bouquinistes. La serie est destinee a preserver la litterature et a promouvoir la culture. Avec sa serie TREDITION CLASSICS, tredition a comme but de mettre a disposition des milliers de classiques de la litterature mondiale dans differentes langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.

Coverage of the 2015 Midsummer Night's Gala in Grafenegg. The concert, which features violinist Julia Fischer, mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman and tenor Piotr Beczala, includes works by, among others, Bizet, Massenet, Saint-Saëns and Verdi. Yutaka Sado conducts the Tonkünstler-Orchester.

Camille Saint-Saens' Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 167, as edited by Paul Harvey. The solo clarinet part is also included on a separate insert.

A seven-volume set featuring anniversary concerts and live performances by, amongst others, Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman and Arthur B. Rubenstein. Also included is director Janos Darvas's 2011 documentary profile of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - 'Coming Home'.

Tomás Netopil conducts the Orchestra and Choir of the Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp in this performance recorded in 2009. Performers include Torsten Kerl, Marianna Tarasova, Nikola Mijailovic and Gijs Van der Linden.

Violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman performs pieces by Prokofiev, Edward Elgar, and Camille Saint-Saëns in a pair of classic performances filmed in London.

This single-volume edition of hard-to-find arrangements of famous classical pieces offers terrific value to intermediate and advanced pianists. Designed to offer musicians a chance to play familiar masterworks, the selections encompass transcriptions by famous pianists, some of whom are remembered today solely for these arrangements.
Contents include "Ride of the Valkyries" and other works by Wagner, three versions of Brahms's "Lullaby," "Chanson Boheme" from Bizet's "Carmen, " Beethoven's "Turkish March," "Waltz of the Flowers" from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker, " and pieces by Handel, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Strauss, and others.

This oratorio by a youthful Camille Saint-Saens was first performed by soloists, chorus and small string orchestra for the 1858 Christmas service at the glise de la Madeleine in Paris. The composer's colleague Eugene Gigout arranged the vocal score, which is presented here in a digitally-enhanced reprint of the one issued by G. Schirmer early in the 20th century. As with the other titles in this series, measure numbers have been added and rehearsal systems have been checked for compliance with the widely available orchestral parts sold by Kalmus. The large A4 size is quite convenient for soloists, choruses, and directors alike.